It is Wordless Wednesday, so today I’m reproducing some advertising images from 1910.
Source
Poster advertising : being a talk on the subject of posting as an advertising medium, with helpful hints and sensible suggestions to poster advertisers, and with thirty-two pages of full color reproductions of posters used by national advertisers (1910)
Author: Hawkins, George Henry Edward
Subject: Advertising; Posters
Year: 1910
The digitized/scanned book is available on the Internet Archive.
Images
Cottolene
American Radiator Company
W. K. Kellogg Toasted Corn Flakes
Quaker Corn Meal
Carnation Milk
St. Charles Cream
Red Seal Paint
E. C. Corn Flakes
Fairy Soap
Quaker Wheat Berries
It is really difficult to believe that lead paint or cottonseed-based foodstuffs celebrated these features of their products. But some of these ads show early versions of what became and still are household brands.
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I just noticed that the Capitol is featured on this last Quaker poster. Maybe the Congress needs to go back to simple food like this and they wouldn’t want to shut down government. 2nd day of U.S. Government Shutdown.
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